Is there a difference between generational sin and just seeing your kids make the same mistakes you made? Over the past month we have replayed our own pasts in the lives of our teenagers and it has been an intense time. I hope we got through with all this but my own experience tells me that like the old Carpenters tune, we've only just begun.
There seem to be only a relatively few variations on the ways in which we seek out individuality and identity as adolescents, and nearly all of them are destructive to us and our inter-family relationships. I have gone through prayer for forgiveness of my family but never for seeking forgiveness from my family for the tough years when they stuck by me when I was incredibly difficult. As a parent now I have much greater respect and love for my own parents.
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